Mikayel Hayrapetyan, the leader of the Conservative Party of Armenia, had stated on one occasion that only Paruyr Hayrikyan and Raffi Hovhannisyan had earned the moral right of leading the opposition in the city council election and had gone into detail: “The others who take opposition attitude, but didn’t venture to participate in the presidential election only two months ago are worse, in my opinion, than the party that has usurped power and carry out only one mission, not to allow Mr. Hovhannisyan to win 37% again.” www.aravot.am inquired of Mr. Hayrapetyan what grounds he had to express such an opinion, considering the fact that it was stated that given the participation of the other opposition forces in the city council election, the Heritage Party had to prove the genuineness of its 37% result. He replied: “Firstly, since Raffi Hovhannisyan has taken on the role of the opposition leader on the Armenian ‘political stage,’ opposition forces are compelled to neutralize Raffi Hovhannisyan’s 37% and prove to society that it was because they didn’t participate in the presidential election. Secondly, decreasing that 37% is partly in Serzh Sargsyan’s interests; he will try to increase his approval rating by that. However, the situation is very delicate; it is possible that if that 37% is substantially decreased, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), the Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), and the Armenian National Congress (ANC) whose appetite and harsh methods of struggle have stood the test of time will cause an unnecessary headache for the government.” Mr. Hayrapetyan had also stated that regardless of “how many votes the government will take away from Hello, Yerevan through ballot
rigging and how many votes the obsolete and homegrown oppositionists will seize from Hello, Yerevan, doing yet another service to the Establishment,” Raffi Hovhannisyan’s civilized attitude bid to become a rule of the game. We asked M. Hayrapetyan to explain to us why he thought that R. Hovhannisyan’s civilized attitude bid to become a rule of the game. In this regard, our interlocutor said: “Mr. Hovhannisyan’s civilized manner has almost completely undermined the brute method of almost all opposition forces of the Third Republic in the eyes of society. It has become clear to society that the government can deploy tanks against the most uncompromising struggle, fire, kill. Therefore, the way out is not the uncompromisingness of the struggle at all; the result is the same, Vazgen Manukyan’s, Stepan Demirchyan’s, and Levon Ter-Petrossian’s struggles on the one hand and Raffi Hovhannisyan’s struggle on the other. So a change of power in Armenia is not possible either through elections or through disturbances similar to an uprising. In this case, society prefers peaceful protests, which leads to the same failure, but the cosmetic advantages of which are obvious. Firstly there are no victims; secondly, something like a revolution of the mind is carried out, which can lead to success one day, reaching the necessary condition. The current oppositionists also realize this public sentiment and are compelled to change their 20-year-old way of struggle; otherwise, they will become completely marginalized. We should be thankful firstly to the late Karen Demirchyan for that and secondly to Raffi Hovhannisyan who have shown a unique talent of thinking a few steps ahead, not causing serious clashes, since even in case of ‘100 percent victory,’ the government will not give in. There are two solutions to this: the first is a coup d’état; the second is tectonic movement of geopolitical poles. The first one has been tried and has ended in a disaster, and the second one is not visible yet.”
Tatev HARUTYUNYAN
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